Stable Tours: quench your thirst for knowledge

STUDIOUS punter or lazy punter, every punter has time for the Racing Post Stable Tour series.

Remember that time Paul Nicholls told everyone clearly and in unequivocal fashion what races Call Equiname would run in and win on his way to running in and winning the Champion Chase? I do.

And because anything that states clearly and in unequivocal fashion the races a horse is going to win is a massive time-saver, I really started paying attention to them. There have been countless such priceless nuggets in our Stable Tours and over the years they have proven one of the paper's most popular features.

Stable Tours Database

But unless you had a big binder and a card index system - or a memory as capacious as MC Hammer's pants - it was far from simple to retain all the quotes and apply them to all the races. Frankly, you couldn't do it if you lived a normal lifestyle integrated with civilised society.

But now our brilliant Stable Tours database does all the dirty work (well, the ink came off on your fingers) for racingpost.com members.

Every day on the cards page you can find a list of all trainer quotes collected by our reporters from Stable Tours in October and November for horses entered that day - Flat and jumps - and for the next five days.

The quotes are in drop-down format, whether they're 15 words or 500, and you can search by horse name or trainer name.
And now is prime time to take advantage of the first-hand info as the jumps tours are in full swing.

Here's a favourite from last year: Charlie Mann on November 2 saying ofSpear Thistle: "He's a stone better on bottomless ground and is capable of winning a half-decent 2m handicap hurdle when it's soft."

Spear Thistle, who a few days earlier had finished ninth on good to soft, reappeared 13 days later at Leicester on soft ground over two miles and won at 9-1. Okay, okay, we can't guarantee they'll all win but you'll have a heavy flow of pertinent juice on your desktop. So join up and quench your thirst for knowledge.

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